Flags in Turkish embassies and missions all over the world are being flown at half-mast to mourn the loss of lives in the earthquake.
Turkey and Syria earthquake: race to find survivors as death toll passes 7,800 and hundreds of thousands seek shelter.
In Turkey, 5,894 people are confirmed to have been killed, while 1,932 people have died in Syria for a combined total of 7,826 fatalities. There are fears that the toll will rise inexorably, with World Health Organization officials estimating up to 20,000 may have died.
In Turkey, 5,894 people are confirmed to have been killed, while 1,932 people have died in Syria for a combined total of 7,826 fatalities. There are fears that the toll will rise inexorably, with World Health Organization officials estimating up to 20,000 may have died.
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Rescuers struggled to dig people out of the rubble of collapsed buildings in a 'race against time' as the death toll from an earthquake across a wide area of Turkey and Syria passed 5,000.
The 7.8 magnitude quake was the deadliest in Turkey since 1999.
The 7.8 magnitude quake was the deadliest in Turkey since 1999.
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The White Helmets volunteers in #Syria, 3000 of them are on the ground searching for survivors.
The images coming out of #Turkey really break my heart. I'm so happy to see photos such as this brave 10 year old holding on to her brother that was rescued a few hours ago. There is hopeโค๏ธ
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A little Syrian boy given water by rescue workers in Antakya. So many children like little Mohamed are still alive, in dire need of rescue across Turkiye and Syria.
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The last hug a father gave
his son. They were found crushed under the rubble after the earthquake. Father held to protect his son even in his last moments.
#Turkey
his son. They were found crushed under the rubble after the earthquake. Father held to protect his son even in his last moments.
#Turkey
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Firefighters rescued a one-year-old girl from the rubble in #earthquake-hit southern #Turkey
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#CCTVFootage Two heroic Turkish nurses rush to Gaziantep intensive care unit to keep children safe.
#TurkeyEarthquake #TurkiyeQuakes #TurkeySyriaEarthquake #Syria
#TurkeyEarthquake #TurkiyeQuakes #TurkeySyriaEarthquake #Syria
The settlers crimes (The Program)
Ramallah, occupied West Bank โ Israeli settlers have carried out at least 300 attacks, including shootings and arson, in a rampage through Palestinian villages in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank. "The program"
A 37-year-old Palestinian man identified as Samih al-Aqtash was shot in the stomach on Sunday night by settlers protected by the Israeli army in the village of Zaatara south of Nablus. He died of his injuries. The father of five returned home five days ago after volunteering to help earthquake survivors in Turkey.
At least 390 Palestinians were injured in the settler rampage across the villages of Huwara, Zaatara, Burin and Asira al-Qibliya โ all south of Nablus.
The majority were wounded from tear gas fired by the Israeli army as well as smoke inhalation from widespread fires set by the settlers.
Palestinian media reported stabbings and attacks with metal rods and rocks. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said one person was in hospital after being beaten in the head with a rock, causing fractures to the skull. Another person suffered a beating with a metal rod to the face.
The violence is โbarbaricโ.
Yesterday we witnessed a new level of colonising settler crimes, where they aggressively attacked everything.
literally shops, people, supermarkets, houses, trees, cars, car garages,
They tried to enter the houses. They burned almost everything.
The settlers โwere 100 percent protected by the Israeli armyโ.
At least 30 Palestinian homes and 100 cars were set on fire by settlers.
unprecedented in terms of size and the short amount of time in which it took place, adding that the Israeli army was a โpartnerโ in the attacks.
The Israeli who was killed was also a US citizen (State Department spokesman) Many US and Canadians arrived in Palestine to carry out attacks against Palestinians.
Earlier on Monday Israel deployed hundreds more soldiers to the occupied West Bank. Huwara, the main southern entrance into Nablus, was closed.
The violence has been widely condemned by local and international politicians, NGOs and human rights groups.
Scenes of burning houses and cars, assault on citizens, preventing fire trucks from reaching burned houses and assaulting ambulances transporting patients and injured โ all these crimes must face international intervention soon to hold the occupation authorities and stop them,
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said in a statement. Nablus Israeli rights groups Peace Now and BโTselem described the attacks as a settler โpogromโ
โWe hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for these heinous crimes, which reflect a systematic policy practiced by the Israeli government, whose ministers demonstrate their support for those crimes in violation of international laws,โ he said, adding that a ministerial committee will be formed to compensate the people affected.
The Ramallah-based Al Haq rights groups said the attack was the โresult of decades long impunity enjoyed by Israel & settlers for international crimes committed against Palestiniansโ.
Sami Abu Shahadeh, a Palestinian politician in the Israeli parliament, said: โThe Zionist pogrom taking place in Huwara is a consequence of the Israeli governmentโs Jewish supremacist political platform.โ
The Israeli rights groups Peace Now and BโTselem also described the attacks as a settler โpogromโ supported by the Israeli government.
A number of foreign governments, including the United States and France, also issued condemnations on the attacks (Fuck y'all just condemned no action) #FuckUS #FuckFrance
Israeli settler attacks have consistently been rising for the past six years. Attacks on villages in the Nablus area, where there is a heavy settler concentration, have been increasing and becoming more organised over the past year.
Many of these incidents have been recorded on video that shows the attacks taking place under the protection or in coordination with the Israeli army, sometimes with soldiers and settlers shooting side by side.
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Ramallah, occupied West Bank โ Israeli settlers have carried out at least 300 attacks, including shootings and arson, in a rampage through Palestinian villages in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank. "The program"
A 37-year-old Palestinian man identified as Samih al-Aqtash was shot in the stomach on Sunday night by settlers protected by the Israeli army in the village of Zaatara south of Nablus. He died of his injuries. The father of five returned home five days ago after volunteering to help earthquake survivors in Turkey.
At least 390 Palestinians were injured in the settler rampage across the villages of Huwara, Zaatara, Burin and Asira al-Qibliya โ all south of Nablus.
The majority were wounded from tear gas fired by the Israeli army as well as smoke inhalation from widespread fires set by the settlers.
Palestinian media reported stabbings and attacks with metal rods and rocks. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said one person was in hospital after being beaten in the head with a rock, causing fractures to the skull. Another person suffered a beating with a metal rod to the face.
The violence is โbarbaricโ.
Yesterday we witnessed a new level of colonising settler crimes, where they aggressively attacked everything.
literally shops, people, supermarkets, houses, trees, cars, car garages,
They tried to enter the houses. They burned almost everything.
The settlers โwere 100 percent protected by the Israeli armyโ.
At least 30 Palestinian homes and 100 cars were set on fire by settlers.
unprecedented in terms of size and the short amount of time in which it took place, adding that the Israeli army was a โpartnerโ in the attacks.
The Israeli who was killed was also a US citizen (State Department spokesman) Many US and Canadians arrived in Palestine to carry out attacks against Palestinians.
Earlier on Monday Israel deployed hundreds more soldiers to the occupied West Bank. Huwara, the main southern entrance into Nablus, was closed.
The violence has been widely condemned by local and international politicians, NGOs and human rights groups.
Scenes of burning houses and cars, assault on citizens, preventing fire trucks from reaching burned houses and assaulting ambulances transporting patients and injured โ all these crimes must face international intervention soon to hold the occupation authorities and stop them,
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said in a statement. Nablus Israeli rights groups Peace Now and BโTselem described the attacks as a settler โpogromโ
โWe hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for these heinous crimes, which reflect a systematic policy practiced by the Israeli government, whose ministers demonstrate their support for those crimes in violation of international laws,โ he said, adding that a ministerial committee will be formed to compensate the people affected.
The Ramallah-based Al Haq rights groups said the attack was the โresult of decades long impunity enjoyed by Israel & settlers for international crimes committed against Palestiniansโ.
Sami Abu Shahadeh, a Palestinian politician in the Israeli parliament, said: โThe Zionist pogrom taking place in Huwara is a consequence of the Israeli governmentโs Jewish supremacist political platform.โ
The Israeli rights groups Peace Now and BโTselem also described the attacks as a settler โpogromโ supported by the Israeli government.
A number of foreign governments, including the United States and France, also issued condemnations on the attacks (Fuck y'all just condemned no action) #FuckUS #FuckFrance
Israeli settler attacks have consistently been rising for the past six years. Attacks on villages in the Nablus area, where there is a heavy settler concentration, have been increasing and becoming more organised over the past year.
Many of these incidents have been recorded on video that shows the attacks taking place under the protection or in coordination with the Israeli army, sometimes with soldiers and settlers shooting side by side.
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โ2022 is the sixth year of consecutive annual increase in the number of Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.โ
โDisturbing evidence of Israeli forces frequently facilitating, supporting and participating in settler attacks, makes it difficult to discern between Israeli settler and state violence. Armed and masked Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians in their homes, attacking children on their way to school, destroying property and burning olive groves, and terrorising entire communities with complete impunity,โ
In recent weeks, matters on the ground have become particularly tense after Israel carried out several large-scale raids in Palestinian cities, killing dozens of Palestinians.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians and wounded more than 100, the majority with live ammunition, during a raid on Nablus. It was the largest Palestinian death toll in a single Israeli military operation since 2005.
Less than a month prior, the Israeli army killed 10 Palestinians during an attack on the Jenin refugee camp, including two children and a 61-year-old woman.
The Israeli army and settlers have killed 67 Palestinians since the start of 2023, including 13 children.
The developments on Sunday in Nablus happened during talks between Palestinian Authority and Israeli officials at the Red Sea port of Aqaba. Representatives from the US and Egypt also attended the meeting, which was condemned and rejected by many Palestinians.
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โDisturbing evidence of Israeli forces frequently facilitating, supporting and participating in settler attacks, makes it difficult to discern between Israeli settler and state violence. Armed and masked Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians in their homes, attacking children on their way to school, destroying property and burning olive groves, and terrorising entire communities with complete impunity,โ
In recent weeks, matters on the ground have become particularly tense after Israel carried out several large-scale raids in Palestinian cities, killing dozens of Palestinians.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces killed 11 Palestinians and wounded more than 100, the majority with live ammunition, during a raid on Nablus. It was the largest Palestinian death toll in a single Israeli military operation since 2005.
Less than a month prior, the Israeli army killed 10 Palestinians during an attack on the Jenin refugee camp, including two children and a 61-year-old woman.
The Israeli army and settlers have killed 67 Palestinians since the start of 2023, including 13 children.
The developments on Sunday in Nablus happened during talks between Palestinian Authority and Israeli officials at the Red Sea port of Aqaba. Representatives from the US and Egypt also attended the meeting, which was condemned and rejected by many Palestinians.
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Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians by the numbers
On February 26, at least 400 Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinian villages in Nablus, including Hawara, killing one man and injuring hundreds of others. Settlers burned down more than 30 homes and at least 100 cars while beating Palestinians with metal rods and rocks.
On March 1, Bezalel Smotrich, Israelโs finance minister who also handles civil administration in the occupied West Bank, said Hawara should be โwiped outโ.
What are Israeli settlements?
Israeli settlements are Jewish communities built on Palestinian land. Between 600,000 and 750,000 Israeli settlers live in at least 250 settlements and outposts built by the Israeli government and settlers, across the occupied Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem.
That is equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. They live beyond the โinternationally recognisedโ borders of their state, on Palestinian land that Israel militarily occupied in 1967 and continues to do so until today. Settlers also lived in the besieged Gaza Strip until 2005, when they were evacuated.
Israeli settlements are illegal under international law as they violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, which bans an occupying power from transferring its population to the area it occupies. This is for a variety of reasons, including protecting civilians from the theft of resources by the occupying power and to prevent changes in the demographic makeup of the occupied territory.
The majority of settlers are armed and Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem suffer from hundreds of Israeli settler attacks each year. Such attacks, which include shootings, stabbings, arson, beatings and rock-throwing, have become more organised over the past few years. Every year, thousands of Palestinian trees and cars are burned by these settlers.
Increasing number of settler attacks
Between 2010 and 2019, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs recorded at least 2,955 settler attacks, in which at least 22 Palestinians were killed, and at least 1,258 others were injured. The governorates of Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah had the highest number of incidents.
Here are the names and locations of the Palestinians killed by Israeli settlers since the start of 2023:
January 11 โ Sanad Samamreh, 18, Hebron
January 21 โ Tariq Maali, 42, Ramallah
January 29 โ Karam Salman, 18, Qalqilya
February 11 โ Mithqal Rayan, 27, Salfit
February 26 โ Samih al-Aqtash, 37, Nablus
On February 26, at least 400 Israeli settlers attacked several Palestinian villages in Nablus, including Hawara, killing one man and injuring hundreds of others. Settlers burned down more than 30 homes and at least 100 cars while beating Palestinians with metal rods and rocks.
On March 1, Bezalel Smotrich, Israelโs finance minister who also handles civil administration in the occupied West Bank, said Hawara should be โwiped outโ.
What are Israeli settlements?
Israeli settlements are Jewish communities built on Palestinian land. Between 600,000 and 750,000 Israeli settlers live in at least 250 settlements and outposts built by the Israeli government and settlers, across the occupied Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem.
That is equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. They live beyond the โinternationally recognisedโ borders of their state, on Palestinian land that Israel militarily occupied in 1967 and continues to do so until today. Settlers also lived in the besieged Gaza Strip until 2005, when they were evacuated.
Israeli settlements are illegal under international law as they violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, which bans an occupying power from transferring its population to the area it occupies. This is for a variety of reasons, including protecting civilians from the theft of resources by the occupying power and to prevent changes in the demographic makeup of the occupied territory.
The majority of settlers are armed and Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem suffer from hundreds of Israeli settler attacks each year. Such attacks, which include shootings, stabbings, arson, beatings and rock-throwing, have become more organised over the past few years. Every year, thousands of Palestinian trees and cars are burned by these settlers.
Increasing number of settler attacks
Between 2010 and 2019, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs recorded at least 2,955 settler attacks, in which at least 22 Palestinians were killed, and at least 1,258 others were injured. The governorates of Nablus, Hebron and Ramallah had the highest number of incidents.
Here are the names and locations of the Palestinians killed by Israeli settlers since the start of 2023:
January 11 โ Sanad Samamreh, 18, Hebron
January 21 โ Tariq Maali, 42, Ramallah
January 29 โ Karam Salman, 18, Qalqilya
February 11 โ Mithqal Rayan, 27, Salfit
February 26 โ Samih al-Aqtash, 37, Nablus